I'm pleased to be playing a small role in the tomorrow's Coalition of Graduate Employees Conference at UMass Amherst. In particular, it's a chance for me to learn more about what motivates aspiring academics to form a union, which I don't know much about yet but absolutely want to understand -- as I think there are some lessons in that on how to sustain and grow labor more broadly. I'll be co-presenting on a session on new media (read "blogging") and labor, and will report back on what I manage to learn.

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